IPhone 5 and 'simplified iPhone 4' both due out this fall, report claims

Apple plans to launch two new iPhone models this fall according to a new report: an iPhone 5 and a new “simplified iPhone 4.” In a note to investors on Wednesday, Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White cites a Chinese-language report from Sohu.com in stating that Apple and China Telecom have reached a preliminary agreement. The site reports that the leading Chinese carrier will launch two distinctly different iPhone models beginning as early as the end of October — an iPhone 5 and a retooled, less expensive iPhone 4. According to White, the new iPhone 4 model could be “a more economical version of iPhone to target a broader customer base in developing countries such as China, allowing for an expanded market opportunity.” In fact, a new high-end model and a less expensive iPhone 4 could combine to create a long-term $68 billion opportunity through China Telecom alone, the analyst wrote. White reiterated his Buy rating on Apple stock, and he maintains his 12-month price target of $666.

I’m honestly getting fed up with this bullshit – I think BGR is trolling us.

Michael Scrip

To be fair… this is a new report filed today by Ticonderoga Securities analyst Brian White.

Had Brian kept his mouth shut… BGR wouldn’t have said anything either.

But honestly… how difficult is it to scroll past stories like this? Resist the urge to click and comment!

Here’s some advice… DO NOT click on any iPhone stories until Apple announces the next iPhone… OK?

If you think it’s bullshit that BGR keeps posting rumors… I think it’s bullshit that you comment on these stores calling them bullshit…

Anonymous

o/

yay! Another report by an analyst!! Soooo…the analysts are doing the trolling then?

sirpaul

Here’s the thing – I come here to read news…if all the news consists of analysts confirming iPhone due in the fall (which everyone already knows!) then it is BS news…instead of wasting time writing up this crap, they could have done an article on something actually interesting. I don’t have a problem with Apple articles, as long as they bring some new, useful information. And not from some retarded analyst.

I can scroll by them no problem. But analyst news takes away from other REAL news. I don’t like to read multiple blogs, and like BGR most days. But lately quality has been going down. I think should make my voice heard so BG takes some sort of action. And obviously I am not the only one.

If my comment bothered you so much, WHY NOT JUST SCROLL PAST IT? Exactly.

Michael Scrip

@sirpaul:disqus

Most “news” stories on this site are just reposts from other blogs. I seriously doubt a lot of time was spent on that paragraph and stock photo. 15 stories were posted since last night… not bad for a blog. Try reading one of those.

If you don’t like a story… don’t use its comments as a forum for your distaste of the entire website. Send a letter to Zach Epstein directly.

You’ve already posted 2 comments on this story that you clearly have no interest in (and I feel a 3rd one coming too)

I opened this story because I wanted to read it…. you came here to complain about it.

sirpaul

@michaelscrip:disqus BGR staff probably have a popcorn break every day reading these comments. I’m sure they read them, and a special email is not required. And ranting prompts others to rant, so maybe they see that it’s not just select few that are getting annoyed.

Anonymous

And your dumb-ass keeps falling for it.

Anonymous

I agree. I looked at this and just thought are you effing kidding me. Just change the format to an all apple blog and get it over with so I can stop coming here.

Anonymous

I just paid $22.87 for an iPad 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/aRSH

Scam

I just saved hundreds of dollars on insurance by switching to Geico!

Anonymous

I just paid $23.87 for an iPod 2-64GB and my girlfriend loves her Panasonic Lumix GF 1 Camera that we got for $38.76 there arriving tomorrow by UPS. I will never pay such expensive retail prices in stores again. Especially when I also sold a 40 inch LED TV to my boss for $657 which only cost me $62.81 to buy. Here is the website we use to get it all from, http://to.ly/aRzu

http://www.facebook.com/applelover Tim Meesseman

I’m beginning to think BGR doesn’t actually read the comments on their site. If they did, they’d see that we are sick and tired of analyst reports. It’s all BS, and nobody cares.

http://twitter.com/m0majeed Mo

obviously you do.

Sin City

Tim, it’s all about the hits. They read almost all of the comments, but it’s a business. They are not changing their stance at all.

Williem

I’m sure commenters make up about .001% of BGR readers, and I’m also sure BGR doesn’t read the comments here. I try not to.

Anonymous

“It’s all BS, and nobody cares.”

Yet you clicked. If you want to stop these articles, don’t read them and don’t ever comment on them.

Anonymous

They read the comments and they love it. Don’t get it twisted for a second. This place is trolls trolling trolls — and while that’s not the best way to form a vibrant and interesting community, it absolutely guarantees that you get a shit-ton of hits. Between the trolls, the people trolling the trolls, the people complaining about the trolls, and the people saying that the only way to get the trolls to go away is to ignore them, you’ve got a lot of people reading and posting.

Every time you read one of these and post about how you’re so tired of analysts (and I’m guilty as well), you’re just giving them more of what they want. That’s why it’ll never change.

http://www.droiddoes.com/ Norm

Yes. FINALLY!!!!!!!!!! Someone who got what I do down to a T! I troll the TROLLS like @Mike10010100 and @DaHarder though I got bored with Engadget and how people like @DaHarder literally out-Trolled me due to complete lack of lives or responsibilities outside of trolling tech blogs

sirpaul

I’ve seen you on Engadget I think once Norm..you still frequent that place? DaHarder gets almost every post. “complete lack of [life]’ is completely right.

serpentor

idk how people comment on Engadget posts where they have a couple of hundred to over a thousand comments each.

That’s why I comment here cuz I can actually follow a thread from beginning to end.

Drew

Yeah, pretty much… Until WE start paying them to post “real” news, they’re just gonna keep on posting from the people that keeps on paying…

Anonymous

BGR sucks, rumors rumors rumors. I want something real.

http://twitter.com/m0majeed Mo

if this is true, apple will dominate the market.

the iphone is too expensive (to buy or to get on contracts) for the masses (everybody wants an iphone) and if it’s a cheaper price point apple will infilitrate all tiers of the market.

look, they had more money than the us government last week and if the above is true i can see apple make 1000’s of billions!

Anonymous

Trillions of dollars. You can see Apple making trillions of dollars. I just wanted to make it clear that you said Apple can make trillions of dollars.

delusion ftl

50 bucks for a new iphone is too expensive? They’ve been that price for like a year or more now, sure it’s the 3gs model but it’s an “iPhone”. The iphone is not out of any contract customers price range.
Of course the reality is that the 3gs is terrible and anyone wanting a smartphone and even having a slight clue would never get it, even if it was free (on contract). Yet, at the same time it’s the phone that just over a year ago editors at BGR touted as some holy phone of perfection and the best device ever. In reality no sane BGR editor would ever go back to the 3gs, and would rather take a contemporary of the 3gs android device over the 3gs if they had to.
Think about it for a minute. If you had someone ask you if they should get a 3gs or a nexus 1 all else equal you’d have to be firmly in the reality distortion field to recommend the 3gs.

The reality distortion field can be explained in a simple way. It is this: I bought apple, it’s popular, i will become cool, “everyone wants one”, therefore I have the best X (phone, computer, mp3 player, tablet etc…). They have no other reference, comparison or basis. Therefore they never fully explore, or refuse to appreciate something that is a bona fide better product. At best they can only realize in hindsight, but still hold to the idea that whatever they currently own that is apple, is simply the best.

serpentor

Yes, iPhone is too expensive for the masses. that’s why it’s the number one selling phone.

See what I did there?

Username873

Engadget + Gizmodo > BGR

Jigganaut

Translation:

A bunch of 15-year-olds blogging from their parents’ basements who replaced a bunch of semi-readable tech writers who left to create a copycat site + a blog that writes “please please please click me” headlines following by three sentences of garbage > BGR?

I’ll stick with BGR. Peace.

Go to Engadget

Atleast those 15 year olds report actual news. Not just Apple and Android news. BGR is all about the rumor mill. They contradict themselves every day. If thats what you like thats all good, but don’t put down those sites for actually reporting news.

Username873

I assume you also enjoy Steve Jobs and John Gellar splooge on your face?

Jigganaut

pwnd.

Fjing28

wow you’re clearly not a gadget reader and so far up BGR’s ass to know those blogs actually write more things than just “iPhone coming” news…

Anonymous

‘Engadget’? Don’t you mean ‘Enfaggot’…?

Anonymous

666 uhmm….

Anonymous

Brian white is the DEVIL

http://twitter.com/Jon_Hayden Jon Hayden

I think this story is implying that Apple is the devil, as it will be THEIR stock that hits $666 and not his own personal stock.

sirpaul

NO SHIT!

Anonymous

Well known fact: The vast majority of iPhone users urinate sitting down.

Anonymous

Well known fact: You are a creepy little man

Anonymous

How many times will you report… “It’s 2 new iPhones; No, it’s one model. It’ll be a slight upgrade; No, it’ll be a whole new design; NO! It’s will be a completely new, groundbreaking model; Oh… new ‘analyst’ says it’ll be two models now.”

I am officially done with this site, such Trash. You just gonna recycle rumors, huh? If all you want is traffic, well me, and the rest complaining about it are contributing, so I’ll stop, and give up hope that this site will ever return to what it used to be.

And No, I didn’t even bother reading the article, about news that was reported months ago, debunked, and now it’s news again. WTF!

Go to Engadget

If you want “news” go to Engadget. If you want rumors and analyst articles that contradict each other every day then stay with BGR. No amount of complaing will help. They will change when people quit clicking on their bullshit rumor articles. I bet you Apple guys are sick of it too.

DunkinGonuts

3 out of 13 posts so far on BGR today are rumors. Just FYI.

Anonymous

Don’t you mean ‘Enf@ggot’?

Sonya

Could you guys please stop with the analyst reports? This site is officially awful. BGR you’ve fallen off and I can’t remember the last time you guys had a good exclusive article.

Anyone else now come here simply out of habit?

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504970952 Matt Holland

You not only visited the site, you clicked on the story and posted a comment. If you don’t like it…don’t click on it.

Sonya

How do I know I won’t like the story if I don’t read it? I read it and as soon as I reach the word “analyst” I stopped reading. I will continue to post my opinions about what I would like to see as a reader. Hopefully BGR will actually listen to his readers because it seems the majority of people are also sick of the predictions and lack of actual news.

Thanks for playing try again.

T Boone

You need to edit your statement immediately to “the majority of commenters/trolls.” Look at the Most Popular widget at any given moment and you will see how very, very, very wrong you are. The “majority of people” who read this site read the rumors. And the Apple news. And, wait for it, the Apple rumors.

Thanks for playing try again.

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504970952 Matt Holland

Good point. Next time I see a TV show I hate I will sit there and watch the entire show in protest. That’ll show ’em.

Pretty easy to see who’s going to dominate the largest cell-phone market in the world…

Anonymous

It would be smart for Apple to create a less expensive iPhone 4 for developing countries, but I don’t think it’d be a good idea to launch it in the US.

Anonymous

I think you might be surprised…

http://www.facebook.com/people/Dave-Russell/1265359834 Dave Russell

I could see a lower priced version of the iPhone 4; all they would have to do is use a lower cost screen like the iPod Touch 4th Gen. instead of the IPS screen and pop everything into a lower cost polycarbonate or aluminium case.

Anonymous

Nice target price of that stock..$666. Just goes to show that Steve Jobs really is the Devil.